Flight 7500 Film

[Melissa Hassel]

Flight7500 is a 2014 American supernatural horror film directed by Takashi Shimizu and starring Leslie Bibb, Jerry Ferrara, Ryan Kwanten, and Amy Smart. It revolves around a supernatural force on a plane. The film is loosely based on the Helios Airways Flight 522 incident that took place in 2005. The film was released in the United States on April 12, 2016, by CBS Films and Lionsgate,[3] after being released theatrically in Asia.

Vista Pacific Airlines flight 7500, a Boeing 747-300, departs from Los Angeles to Tokyo Haneda. Passengers onboard include a group of two vacationing couples, Lyn and Jack, and Brad and Pia, who have secretly broken up; a thief named Jake; a suspicious businessman traveling with a strange wooden box, Lance Morrell; a young woman named Raquel; newlyweds Rick and Liz; and the goth Jacinta. Air hostesses Laura and Suzy welcome the passengers on board, and Suzy questions Laura about her secret relationship with the married captain, Pete.

A few hours into the flight, the plane hits turbulence that soon passes. Lance has a panic attack and begins to bleed profusely from his mouth. When Lance suddenly dies, Captain Pete continues to Japan, moving the first-class passengers into Economy class and keeping Lance's body in the closed-off first class.

While dispensing drinks, Laura notices plastic water bottles collapsing and quickly warns everyone to fasten their seatbelts, as the cabin pressure drops. Oxygen masks are dispensed above the seats, but at least one does not work. The co-pilot falls unconscious. A thick smoke fills the cabin floor. After the cabin pressure returns to normal and the smoke disappears, Laura finds Raquel unconscious in the toilet and revives her with an oxygen tank. Meanwhile, the plane's radio has stopped working and Captain Pete cannot contact Tokyo air traffic controllers.

Jake goes to first-class to steal the Rolex from Lance's body when the body suddenly moves. He does not notice; when he pulls back the cloth covering the body, he is petrified by something off-screen. Suzy finds out that Jake, and Lance's body, have both disappeared. When Laura notices an F-16 fighter jet flying beside their plane and calls the cockpit to inform Pete, he replies that no fighter jets are present. Brad's in-flight TV show distorts and shows an image of Lance, while Liz is startled by a reflection of Lance on her laptop screen. Raquel returns to the washroom to do a pregnancy test and is relieved it turned out negative. However, smoke begins to fill the toilet and a hand grabs her and pulls her into the floor.

Laura searches Lance's checked luggage, entering the cargo hold through a small hatch. A hand emerges and drags Laura away. As Suzy waits for Laura by the hatch, another hand grabs at her. Suzy runs into first class, while a cloud of smoke follows her. The smoke quickly clears and Brad, Pia, Rick, Liz, and Jacinta rush to find out what is wrong. As Suzy walks towards them, one of the overhead compartments opens and she disappears into it. While the others rush towards the cockpit, Jacinta hears her own words and hesitantly walks towards an unknown figure which appears before her and hugs it.

The others discover Captain Pete and the co-pilot dead in their seats. They eventually, alone or with another, find their own corpses slumped in their seats. The entertainment screen in the cabin suddenly shows a breaking news story that Flight 7500 suffered a catastrophic decompression, and communication had been lost. The F-16 fighter jet that Laura saw earlier was sent to investigate the plane but found no sign of life on board, and the Boeing 747-300 is now a ghost plane. It is revealed that all passengers and crew on the jumbo jet are dead in the turbulence, due to the effects of hypoxic hypoxia and that everyone who has disappeared was taken after they let go of the one thing that had been tying them to the world. Brad and Pia accept their death and reconcile as the plane runs out of fuel and crashes into the ocean. Sometime after, Liz awakens to find the plane empty. She hears a strange noise coming from one of the waste bins, a discolored hand appears, and Liz ducks out of frame.

Flight 7500 departs Los Angeles International Airport bound for Tokyo. As the plane climbs higher, the passengers experience what appears to be a supernatural force in the cabin.I am wondering if anyone knows if this movie is based on a true story. I would really like to know!

I'm not entirely sure if Flight 7500 is based on a true story, but it does seem to be inspired by real life events. The plot of the film revolves around a group of passengers who experience some weird and unexplainable occurrences during a flight from Los Angeles to Tokyo. There have been a few reports of similar strange occurrences on flights, but nothing has been proven. Personally, I think the film is more about exploring the human psyche and how people react to the unexpected and unexplainable.

The 7500 flight from Los Angeles to Tokyo sets off as normal with honeymooners, tourists, backpackers and the usual assortment of characters that you get on flights. Nothing seems out of the ordinary on the flight as everyone settles in for the ten hour flight before hitting light turbulence after less than an hour. Although things seem normal at first, a passenger unexpectedly dies from unknown causes but the pilot agrees with the ground crew to continue as planned.

Soon afterwards more mysterious happenings occur, including the disappearance of people, even the dead body, passing F16 Fighter Jets and a mist filling various sections of the plane at random intervals. Can they make it to Tokyo safely?

Before it even becomes clear what the plot really is, it thickens a good deal. Tobias has something going with one of the Stews; that sets up on the cockpit door threshold. Then the first officer arrives and tasks Tobias to help getting the ship airborne. The captain is played by Carlo Kitzlinger.

Although 7500 takes a heading something different than the tragic disappearance of the yet to be found MH-370, or even the horrific, deliberate aiming of jets into skyscrapers on 9-ll, we sense this fictional flight on a chilly night out of Berlin can only be a rough ride for all aboard.

It takes one hour and 45 minutes to fly from Berlin to Paris. If you\u2019ve ever been on a flight of that approximate length, as I did every winter and summer break from Oakland to Seattle and back to Oakland again, you know that not much can really happen on a flight that short. The airplane takes off, the seatbelt sign flickers on and off a couple times, drinks and a snack are served, you read a few chapters, the airplane descends, and then it\u2019s all over. More than anything, it\u2019s an exercise in killing time. It doesn\u2019t leave much time for something to go wrong \u2014 like, say, a hijacking.

7500, a new Joseph Gordon-Levitt film named after the emergency code for a hijacking, takes place almost entirely on that scheduled flight from Berlin to Paris, making it a short film. The movie, available for streaming on Amazon Prime, clocks in at one hour and 32 minutes. JGL plays the first officer, a soft-spoken American pilot named Tobias who lives in Germany with his girlfriend \u2014 a flight attendant, who happens to be working that same flight \u2014 and their son, who is presumably back at home oblivious to the danger his parents will soon find themselves in. Hijackers are onboard.

The movie, written and directed by Patrick Vollrath in his feature film debut, is told from Tobias\u2019 vantage point. The camera never strays from the cockpit. The entire film is shot from the perspective of Tobias in the cockpit as the plane is almost immediately attacked by hijackers. The end result is a taut, claustrophobic thriller that expertly builds and sustains tension as Tobias navigates his way through a nightmare night at the office. 7500 is an examination of how heroes, villains, and the people merely trying to survive the battle between good and evil respond in moments of crisis. It\u2019s a movie that aims to be more than a conventional thriller and mostly, but not entirely, succeeds in that endeavor.

The film, after an opening credit sequence overlaid with security footage at the Berlin Airport, immediately places us in the cockpit. Here, before the flight takes off, Vollrath crafts a sense of normalcy. Tobias briefly speaks with his girlfriend, G\u00F6kce (Aylin Tezel), about their son. They\u2019re trying to figure out where he should go to school. The pilot enters and cracks an icebreaking joke about the plane. There\u2019s a discussion about two passengers who haven\u2019t yet boarded and their luggage that has already been loaded. The passengers barely make it onboard before departure. Pilot and co-pilot run through a pre-flight checklist. They guide the plane to the runway. They give the flight attendants their meal order. Tobias orders a sandwich and water. The pilot only wants water (no bubbles). With dark skies around them, they achieve liftoff.

This might seem boring, but of course, having entered the film with knowledge that the flight will be hijacked, it\u2019s not. You\u2019re left sitting there waiting for the hijacking to begin, watching the pilots operate completely blind to the incoming threat. Depicting the opening procedure also has purpose. For one, it establishes a sense of normalcy that the attempted hijacking will disrupt. It lulls the pilots into a false sense of routine. For most of us, piloting an airplane is an entirely foreign practice we\u2019ll never learn. It\u2019s not something we think much about, even while onboard a plane. Sure, we hope the flight isn\u2019t turbulent and no issues arise mid-flight, but we seldom engage with the how of flying, the mechanisms of flight. The opening moments give us a glimpse behind the cockpit door. As someone who developed into a nervous flyer at some point in my late-teens and remains that way today in my late-20s, I found observing the process comforting and I gained an added appreciation for pilots. With all those buttons and levers, they manage to make their job seem so effortless. For them, it is routine. Above all else, the opening establishes a sense of control. The pilots are in complete and total authority. The hijackers will soon try to seize that power.

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